This video offers a historic walkthrough of Ulysses S. Grant’s residence in Galena, IL, where he lived after the Civil War.

A ceremony to honor Jefferson County’s last Civil War veteran was held recently at the Brookville Cemetery, when a special ...

A ceremony to honor Jefferson County’s last Civil War veteran was held recently at the Brookville Cemetery, when a special ...

Francis Ernest Dumas was a wealthy soldier who became the highest ranking Black combat officer during the Civil War.

This week marks the anniversary of the greatest battle in the United States’ Civil War. That battle, at Gettysburg, was ...

The Architecture of Presidential Commemoration” surveys the history of presidential memorialization, a complicated tale.

On a sunny but crisp afternoon this spring, more visitors than you might think trekked on a weekday to Ball’s Bluff ...

Americans, on July 4th, celebrate the nation’s birthday, when the Continental Congress officially declared that the United States was no longer a British colony, but an independent country. It gained ...

By this Declaration, Americans asserted their unwillingness to be serfs or vassals to an unaccountable ruler, but rather as ...

This is the fifth in a series of articles about Marshalltown street names. Today’s article identifies the five city streets ...